New Balfour is a sheep's milk cheese from New Zealand made by the Gibbston Valley Cheese Company. It is hard-pressed style of cheese characterized by a crumbly and grainy texture with sweet flavour and nutty overtones of Southland sheep milk. The Balfour is similar to a young Italian Pecorino and will taste perfect when shaved on Italian dishes such as pastas and risottos. It also goes well with Central Otago fruit on the cheeseboard.

Type: hard

Texture: crumbly, flacky hard and grainy

Rind: natural.